Garfield's Nightmare Media Day 2004

On May 1st, 2004, Kennywood held a media day for the re-opening of the Old Mill, then called Garfield's Nightmare. Included is an overview of the redeveloped area, a look at the new Garfield and Odie walk-around mascots, an on-ride POV, and a brief commencement by Mary Lou Rosemeyer, Jerome Gibas, and Rick Davis. Also, the winner was announced for the "Where's Garfield?" contest.
Featuring the Garfield comic strip characters, riders took a boat ride through Garfield's food driven nightmare, including a ravenous ice cream trucks, dogs, pizzas, a nurse, a gold fish, mice, and a wild kitchen. Garfield's Nightmare operated from 2004 to 2019.

Footage used is filmed and owned by David Hahner Jr. Edited by David Hahner III.

[Arcee]

"Are you sure this is a good house daddy?"
"NO!" 😂😂😂😂😂

[jenbrant]

I haven’t seen the Garfield queue video so David Hahner maybe if you would upload more Garfield’s nightmare queue videos that will be awesome for me

[tismejaytee]

Idk about them re-theming the ride, felt so much more whimsical and old timey with the Garfield theme...

[coasterdunesproductions]

This video is amazing! The ride looks so new and clean! Also I’ve noticed there is music in the ride that I never knew was in there, and I first rode it in 2006. Must’ve only been in there during the first couple years. Great video!

[RampagingRex]

Wow, this is some great stuff! I noticed a lot of sound effects that were not present on the ride for at least the last ten years. Also some of the spoken lines seemed to play at the wrong time, but maybe that was intended to make it seem more dreamlike. The opening door in the first show scene is also facing the opposite way. It's really interesting to see how the attraction changed over the years, but I'm really looking forward to the return of the Old Mill!

[kpcoasters]

I am amazed at how different this ride was when it first opened

[ILoveAngelGabby]

it's interesting how this ride lasted for so long, I noticed how the sound was handled differently in the first couple years when it was operating, later on some of it was removed or cut. now I wonder what happened to the leftover parts they have for this ride now...

[themeparkreconnoiter]

They could've got The Heathcliff characters instead of Garfield, probably could've theme their kids area based off the 70's and 80's Cartoon and Comic strip. There isn't any other theme park besides Universal Studios Hollywood that doesn't have a kids area based off the yet again 70's and 80's Animated Series and Comic Strip, and have walkarounds Characters of Heathcliff, Iggy Nutmeg, or even The Catillac Cats.

[ScorpionsFatality]

I really wish i could have been there for opening day! I want to see the ride in its full glory :c shame they let it get so run down.


Thanks for this video!!

[mrk_builder]

I never have been to Kennywood, but I've seen videos of the old mill and I prefer this over the old mill. I wish they never had gotten rid of this. This would actually be a good ride to put in Silverwood.

[tismejaytee]

The commentary from your kids was funny

[Lazor]

Wow... is that a placeholder sound? I hear that some sounds are missing and there is that unfamiliar forgotten one.

[mikuthecat]

Does anybody know where or have a link to the Garfield pre-show video?

[aaronsarchive]

Looks like the comic strip from the unload dock wasn't there yet

[ThemeParkCrazy]

May I use this footage in a video I'm making about the worst dark rides ever? I will give your channel full credit.

[aidenleya]

I miss this Kennywood, I wish I could experience Kennywood before the new owners took it over

[blurtrollolllollllllllloll]

1:56 Did they remove that Sound effect like the first year

[kellyanderson]

Ok so what I noticed was hardly anyone in the line barriers & they never bothered to redo the outside of the ride . So if there was no Garfield sign anybody would think it was a haunted ride . So glad they bringing it back now I hope they bring back the train ride hillbilly scenes ( or maybe haunted) the billboards are boring!!

[valerievargas]

So the whole was from the very opening day?